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The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
The Northern Peaks State Trail is a unit of the North Carolina state park system in Ashe and Watauga Counties, North Carolina in the United States.The State Trail is planned as a hiking trail connecting Downtown Boone, Howard Knob County Park, Elk Knob State Park, Three Top Mountain Gameland, Downtown West Jefferson and Mount Jefferson State Natural Area. [2]
The Birkhead Mountains Wilderness was established by the 1984 North Carolina Wilderness Act and covers 5,160 acres (20.9 km 2) in the Uwharrie National Forest at the northern end of the Uwharrie Mountains, in central North Carolina. [1]
North Carolina's section of a developing bikeway spanning the East Coast of the United States. Equine State Trail: Piedmont 0 miles (0 km) 0 acres (0 km 2) 2023 [22] A bridle path in North Carolina's Sandhills region. Fonta Flora State Trail: Mountains 19 miles (31 km) [5] 203 acres (0.82 km 2) [5] 2015 [23]
Tuttle Educational State Forest (TESF) is a 288-acre (117 ha) North Carolina State Forest near Lenoir, North Carolina. [1] It was named for American missionary educator Lelia Judson Tuttle , who donated the first 168 acres (68 ha) of land for the park in 1956.
The Southern Nantahala Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of 23,473 acres (94.99 km 2).Approximately 11,770 acres (47.6 km 2) are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately 11,703 acres (47.36 km 2) are located in North Carolina in the Nantahala National Forest.
The Slickrock Creek basin is coated primarily by a mature second-growth cove hardwood forest, although a substantial old growth stand still exists in its upper watershed. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness borders the Citico Creek Wilderness , which lies within the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee .
The State of North Carolina has a group of twelve protected areas known as State Forests which are managed by the North Carolina Forest Service, an agency of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.